Aldi Adilang, 19, was rescued after nearly two months, surviving on fresh caught fish from his wooden fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean that floated 1,200 miles away from Indonesia to Guam. abcn.ws/2YsYkBH #Rescue #Sea #Teen #ABCNews
The rescue made him come closer to death than how he was surviving adrift! Idk hindsight is 20 20 but they should have sent out a dingy or something to save him. Maybe a life boat with rope idk that massive boat was creating like 20 foot waves
@Yujiro hanma I think it still is. There's no way you're going to filter salt through a Tshirt. He survived on saltwater, which everyone always says not to attempt.
@Yujiro hanma Yeah, the high salt content causes you to urine more, thus resulting in dehydration. I really don't understand how he accomplished this feat.
@Toori Baba I didn't even consider that it may have been a hoax. I mean, he was out in the ocean and would have had no way to get back. Would anyone take a chance like that? Idk. Maybe it rained and he collected that.
@@FroZenMemes”Normal people,” mate as sad as it is I’d barely call atheists normal lmao. Jesus just let people praise their god without acting like a jerk about it. Like- Atl the dude acknowledged the people that were involved in his rescue. I’ve seen comments where they haven’t even done that!
If he’s 19 now, it means he started working the fish trap at age 16, and has lost his anchor line three times in the past. Talk about resilience and perseverance. Someone find that kid and get him an education. That kind of self-discipline is predictive of positive outcomes if he only is given an opportunity.
What an incredible, and truly miraculous story! This young man's intelligence, survival skills, determination, bravery, and strong-minded nature, surely, all contributed to his amazing outcome! I can only imagine what the reunion between him, and his friends, family, and loved ones, must have been like! Had they been aware that he had remained alive, throughout this entire ordeal, due to the fact that he had been equipped with radio capabilities, or were they, simply, left waiting, and wondering, for the entire time; praying for his safe return, but, ultimately, not knowing what to expect? If the latter is, in fact, the case, then they must have been met with the most beautiful surprise of a lifetime, to learn he was safe, alive, and in quite good health, despite such a profoundly terrifying, exhausting, and challenging experience!💘
This is a nice story, but it's fake news. You can't survive 49 without water. Filtering salt water through a shirt is still salt water, and you can't survive drinking salt water. Salt is made of two ions, a Sodium ion (Na+) and a Chloride ion (CL-). These ions are measured in trillionths of a meter, whereas even the most tightly woven specialty fabrics have pores measured in millionths of a meter. That's means the holes in it are millions of times larger than the salt ions. Even if his t-shirt was made of the most tightly woven fabric available (which is very doubtful), the Na+ and CL- ions are still millions or times smaller than the pores in that shirt. Consequently, the shirt would do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to filter the salt out of the water. The human body can't survive 49 days drinking salt water. This is fake news.
This was his third time lost at sea. First he lost for a week, second he lost for 3 days, and this last one for 49 days and he promised to himself will never back to the sea.
@Greedo But then you could meet aliens and explore a world where living is possible. (And when the aliens are bad, they're going to kill you and you have no more time to be scared) On the sea it's just you and your thoughts
Wow, the fact that he had that INSANE strength for 2 months at sea to survive, but then the minute he was safely on the deck of that big ship that rescued him, he just was able to be vulnerable. I cant imagine how overwhelming that felt to know he was saved. Omg ❤ and only 19! God bless him.
@@sum1221 Atheist? Not all are lost, most choose to be. For some, being unaccountable to a creator, lost at sea so to speak is liberating.. Until the storms come.
Don't know why these type of lost at sea rescues always get me emotional. Can just imagine being out there all alone day and night not being able to control where you're going. You're just at the mercy of the waves and the wind hoping to see familiar land. Good job guys!
@@ygrek1930 japan society getting older because there is too small ratio of kids borning. There is 15 miliona of kids and 130 milions of whole population. Sorry for my bad english, i still learn
He caught fish & cooked it on the fire he made on the boat. He came up with creative ways to make the water more drinkable. And he never gave up hope. A genius & a hero.
I love how Western journalism works. A young boy is working what are obviously extremely dangerous circumstances to survive and they don’t call into question the forces that caused this situation, they just chuckle with self satisfaction
@@hackman669 You're an idiot, all people are able to use their mind in a survival situation. You think this kid would have looked like a genius if he were never lost at sea? You don't need to be educated to figure out how to stay alive.
*Note: This boy was only 16 years. He ate raw sea food for 49 days. He drank sea water which he filtered through his shirt (which doesn't remove it's salt in anyway). He was constantly beaten by rain and sunshine for 49 days straight. He was out in the cold. He was lonely and didn't know if he was going to die. And he had the courage to still jump inside the ocean to swim towards the only ship he saw.* *But this news didn't get much coverage cause it happened same time the Thai Football Boys got trapped inside the cave so that one took center stage.* *11 boys and their coach. They had company and heard human voices constantly.* *But this boy was all alone, surrounded by sea and fishes.*
this comment is prolly a joke but y'all shouldn't judge him/her for crying when their home alone. I mean we all have weird things we cry about, and if someone laughed at you and called you a coward for it ofc you wouldn't like it so stop judging this person. (even tho the comment is most likely a joke)
49 days sounds like just days, but imagine every minute, every hour, day and night for a month and 19 days, you've got to have a big heart to believed there is still hope out there.
@James Scalzo the kind of people who are bitter for nothing. You speak like someone forced you to read my comment. You seem to have something sensible to do (which include watching videos on YT). Keep your lane dude.
@dingus Macgee Bogus claim. He was desperate for help and ships just passed him by. He even says he’s not going back ever to work for the employer that put him on that raft. You have no idea what kind of fear this young men was faced with being stranded in the ocean, alone. It is dramatic. Also you claim he was quite comfortable and I have a hard time believing that. Easy for you to say. You have no empathy whatsoever. Your completely ignorant to the adversity presented to this young man, and brush it off like he was not in a life threatening circumstance and then have the nerve to call it the truth from you shallow perspective. Complete ignorance on your part, id like to see you try to walk a mile in his shoes.
gamer.20years.and why did your mom tell you not to burn trash? Did you burn it in the first place, to the point where she had to tell you not to? I don’t know about you, but my mom doesn’t randomly tell me not to burn trash for no reason. That joke is just a cheap way to escape from the fact that your not smart or creative enough to think of your own comeback. You don’t have to say that to seem cooler even though your not, that just makes you less cool. (Jokes aside tho 😂)
Yes, it is pretty scary and indeed way worse than a life raft. But drift wood is reusable and is also disposable because woods drifts off into the sea a lot. If a wood couldn't float, you could just find a new one. Odds are though, if you live in someplace without any trees near an ocean (Like Caliofornia or perhaps Hawaii) then you won't find much to any drift wood because trees are far away from the beaches there.
A lot of rubbish books with less of the story sells well and the movies as well.. So I'm pretty sure that his confessions with a bit of marketing will have it's audience ;-) especially if you love true stories.. And the movie.. I would love to watch that.
Think of all of those horrifying nights alone in the ocean he had to endure. Just every single moment living in anxiety, uncertainty, and fear. 😩 I can’t even imagine. He’s amazing.
Everybody talking about the scary nights, which I 1000% agree with, but goodness those LONG ASS DAYS had to be excruciating! Having to catch fish build fires and filter water through a TEE SHIRT is insanely resilient, as a teen! I woulda perished day 3 tops.
Also IMAGINE struggling 49 fucking days in the sea.fighting each day to live another fucking day.and post rescue yet AGAIN he have to fight each fucking day for not giving him the credit but fucking GOD.
@@leandroagonzalez3 bro being lost in the vast ocean in a raft for 49 days? I'm here sitting in my office desk with A/C, water, and my food in the fridge. I can't imagine how he must've felt or what it must've been like to be in his place
Last night while sipping a beer at the marina in Pubsacola, Florida one of the guys brought up the "fact" that you can strain seawater through a shirt to make it drinkable. He was referring to Aldi's 49 day survival Typically, according to the books I have read on survival fresh water is the critical key to survival as you CAN NOT DRINK SALT WATER. You can collect rainwater for drinking or if you have a water maker with a1000psi pump that can separate salt from seawater by forcing the seawater through a membrane (reverse osmosis) or you can boil/distill saltwater, collect the steam as it turns into salt free water, or you can use a solar still where the sun provides the heat and a seawater soaked cloth in a closed container covered in plastic and dimpled in the center with a collection cup nestled in the wet cloth or other material will distill the seawater only much slower. It alarms me when information is out there among sailors - new or not - that bringing a spare t-shirt along is enough at sea to provide drinkable water. God is great, miracles are real though rare in the scope of ocean survival.
He boiled the water using the wood from the boat to make a fire and put his shirt over the pot to catch the steam. Boiling the water allows the liquid water particles to become a gas and separate from the salt. That makes the water fresh and safe to drink. Eventually, he squeezed the all the fresh water out of his shirt that got caught there as steam. I only know about this because I read a survival manual once. This kid is really smart.
THIS WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST LIFE LESSONS IN THE WORLD . . . ON SURVIVAL..!!!! HE SURVIVIED BY EATING FISH HE HAD CAUGHT..... AND DRINKING ''SEA WATER'' BY FILTERING IT THROUGH HIS SHIRT..!!!! WOW..!!!! THIS TEEN IS ONE INTELLIGENT AND SHARP YOUNG MAN...!! !! !!
You have heard stories from other ppl who were lost at sea and where ships pass by without seeing them. Actually. one man I remember saying, there was a ship that past by and some of the crew saw him and just waved at him without stopping. Wouldn't ships know that it is strange to see a small raft or boat in the middle of the ocean? This ship past him by and only turned back bc they got his radio signal. If they didn't get it, well that would have been sad.
